500 Great Books by Women

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This list is a great way to discover a range of women’s writing.

From the book 500 Great Books by Women: A Reader’s Guide by Erica Bauermeister, Jesse Larsen, & Holly Smith.

Note: There are actually more than 500 books listed in the original book (and on this list.)

The list is alphabetical by author.

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  1. 151.
    Early Spring (Women in Translation Series)
    by Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen

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  2. 152.
    Stones for Ibarra (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Harriet Doerr

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  3. 153.

  4. 154.
    The Gates of Ivory
    by Margaret Drabble

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  5. 155.
    How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed
    by Slavenka Drakulic

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  6. 156.
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    Blue Taxis: Stories About Africa
    by Eileen Drew

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  7. 157.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne du Maurier

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  8. 159.
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    My Friend Annie
    by Jane Duncan

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  9. 160.
    The Lover
    by Marguerite Duras

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  10. 162.
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    Hitchhiking
    by Gabriele Eckart

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  11. 163.
    Beka Lamb (Caribbean Writers Series)
    by Zee Edgell

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  12. 164.
    Castle Rackrent
    by Maria Edgeworth

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  13. 165.
    The Solace of Open Spaces
    by Gretel Ehrlich

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  14. 166.
    The Day I Began My Studies In Philosophy: And Other Stories
    by Margareta Ekstrom

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  15. 167.
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    Two Women in One: Nawal El-Saadawi (Women in Translation))
    by Nawal El Saadawi

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  16. 168.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  17. 169.
    Second-Class Citizen
    by Buchi Emecheta

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  18. 170.
    The Waiting Years
    by Fumiko Enchi

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  19. 171.
    Tracks
    by Louise Erdrich

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  20. 172.
    Cleaned Out (French Literature Series)
    by Annie Ernaux

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  21. 174.
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    Magic Eyes: Scenes from an Andean Childhood
    by Wendy Ewald

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  22. 176.
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    The Seventh Garment
    by Eugenia Fakinou

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  23. 177.
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    Beggar's Strike (Longman African Classics Series)
    by Aminata Sow Fall

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  24. 178.
    Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
    by Susan Faludi

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  25. 180.

  26. 181.
    Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
    by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

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  27. 182.
    Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir
    by Mamie Garvin Fields

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  28. 183.
    Sister Age
    by M.F.K. Fisher

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  29. 184.
    Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
    by Fannie Flagg

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  30. 185.
    Lady's Maid
    by Margaret Forster

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  31. 186.
    The Coquette (Early American Women Writers)
    by Hannah W. Foster

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  32. 187.
    Owls Do Cry
    by Janet Frame

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  33. 189.
    My Brilliant Career
    by Miles Franklin

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  34. 190.
    Mary Queen of Scots
    by Antonia Fraser

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  35. 191.
    My Father's House
    by Sylvia Fraser

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  36. 192.
    Exile in the Promised Land: A Memoir
    by Marcia Freedman

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  37. 193.
    Pembroke: A Novel
    by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

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  38. 194.
    The Lover of Horses (The Graywolf Short Fiction Series)
    by Tess Gallagher

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  39. 195.
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    The Pegnitz Junction
    by Mavis Gallant

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  40. 196.
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    The Impenetrable Madame X
    by Griselda Gambaro

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  41. 197.
    Dreaming in Cuban
    by Cristina Garcia

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  42. 198.
    Mary Barton (The Elizabeth Gaskell Series)
    by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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  43. 199.
    Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Kaye Gibbons

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  44. 200.
    Cold Comfort Farm
    by Stella Gibbons

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